All Blog Posts Tagged 'openstack' (7)

The news that 6fusion and the CME Group were teaming up to ignite a spot exchange for cloud infrastructure back in April of this year made public nearly three years of work by the smart team at 6fusion. Since early 2011 we’ve closely monitored key trends indicating the formation of the market. Helping to make the emerging spot exchange successful means…

Last week in Atlanta during the OpenStack Summit, I gave a talk on “Are enterprises ready for the OpenStack transformation” [slides|video]. In this talk, I suggest that OpenStack is a game changer, both by definition and because of how it’s following the AWS model, in the way enterprises should…

For businesses large and small, IT must move from being a cost center to a strategic partner, delivering tangible value and differentiation. Cloud solutions are a critical component of this evolution, allowing businesses to reduce capital expenditures, scale capacity up and down quickly to meet usage spikes, and respond promptly to new business requests.

This IT evolution, or revolution rather, was initiated by the introduction of public cloud services like Amazon EC2/S3. Users are no…

Raise your hand if you remember the 1990s. I’m not talking about plaid flannels or the Spice Girls. I’m referring to the digital revolution that took place.

Companies built applications for everything from HR tools to enterprise resource planning supply chain management to you name it. What the industry didn’t have was a way to bring it all together. It was a rarity if those applications could actually talk to each other without modifications. Companies spent thousands on applications…

I believe a day will come when customers won’t need to make a distinction between private, virtual private, and public clouds. All cloud will feature the necessary cost savings, reliability, performance and security.

Until then, though, do entrepreneurs, developers and corporations pick private, virtual private or public cloud? Should they keep data in-house to ensure it’s always available and secure? Do they need massive scale at a low price? Where and how is data…

Media exposure is by no means a predictive marker for industry adoption. This is especially true when you examine the media footprint of the 4 common cloud computing platforms: CloudStack, OpenStack, Eucalyptus and OpenNebula. Multi-vendor initiatives such as OpenStack or CloudStack tend to have big PR advantages over those of a single company, like Eucalyptus or OpenNebula. …

Thanks to VMware’s recent $1.26 billion purchase of Software-Defined-Networking (SDN) leader Nicira, and their new marketing push on the Software-Defined-Data-Center, everyone is running around trying to attach themselves to Software-Defined-Anything (SDx). This is as true for the storage market as it is any other segment of the…